Our bestselling series began with 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL (9thprinting, 300,000+ in print) and includes Law, Film, Fashion, Culinary, Business, Engineering. See the series here

We’ve moved! After eight wonderful years in Boston/Harvard Square, we’ve moved back to my home state of New York, settling in the stunning and ever interesting Hudson Valley, about 90 miles north of the city. Our new address is listed above.

A small, selective agency and member of AAR, the Author's Guild, and Grub Street's Literary Advisory Board, Fairbank Literary Representation is happily entering its eleventh year. Clients range from first-time authors to international best-sellers, prize winning-journalists to professionals at the top of their fields.

Our tastes tend toward literary and international fiction; the occasional mystery or thriller with a firm sense of place; memoir that goes beyond the me-moir; topical or narrative non-fiction with a strong interest in women’s voices, global perspectives, and class and race issues; quality lifestyle books (food, wine, and design); pop culture; craft; and gift and humor books. We are most likely to pick up works that are of social or cultural significance, newsworthy, or that cause us to take great delight in the words, images or ideas on the page.

Lately we have been doing extremely well in the humor/gift/pop culture category, and we’d love to take on more projects in those categories. We do have a strong sense of humor, but above all, we look for a fresh voice, approach, story, or idea.

Fiction
* * * MIROSLAV PENKOV * * * Winner of the Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction, Selected for Best American Short Stories (2009, Salman Rushdie); Best American Nonrequired Reading(2013); the O'Henry Prize (2012); and author of the debut collection, EAST OF THE WEST, a country, in stories (FSG hardcover, Picador paperback).
* * * JEFFREY FLEISHMAN * * * Pulitzer finalist, LA TIMES Cairo Bureau Chief, and winner of numerous awards, author of the novels PROMISED VIRGINS and SHADOW MAN (and Indie Next pick 2012).
* * * CHARLOTTE FORBES * * * has written for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Narrative Magazine, the Boston Globe, and other national newspapers and magazines. An O. Henry Prize story writer, her short story collection, The Good Works of Ayela Linde was a Kirkus Best Book of 2006.
***MAN MARTIN*** Southern humor writer, former nationally syndicated cartoonist, and author of Days of the Endless Corvette (Carroll & Graf), and Paradise Dogs (St Martin’s Press).
* * * REX BURNS * * * Edgar winner & host of STARZEncore Mystery Channel’s Anatomy of a Mystery, REX BURNS author of seventeen books, including the long-running Gabe Wagner series for which he was nominated twice for an Edgar, winning once. Entire backlist now republished with Mysterious Press and Open Road

Nonfiction
* * * Neil Landau * * * Film and TV writer ( Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Melrose Place, Doogie Howser, M.D.) and author of The Screenwriter’s Roadmap, the forthcoming The Showrunner’s Roadmap (Fall 2013), and co Author of the bestselling book, 101 Things I Learned ® in Film School.
* * * Estate of ROBIN MOORE * * * international bestselling author of more than 50 books, including The French Connection, The Green Berets, The Hunt For Bin Laden, and Hunting Down Saddam. Fairbank Literary also holds represents more than thirty of Moore’s previously published works, available for reprint, electronic, game and film rights.
* * * JOHN MCALEER (Estate of) * * * Edgar-winner and author of more than a dozen books. McAleer’s best known book is Rex Stout: A Biography, for which he won an Edgar. McAleer’s Korean War book, Unit Pride, was reissued by Lyons Press.

Illustrated, Art, Humor, and Pop Culture

* * * MATTHEW FREDERICK * * * Author of the best selling (300,000+ in print) 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School®, and creator/coauthor/illustrator of the 101 THINGS I LEARNED® series with Grand Central Publishing. Books to date: Architecture School, Film School, Culinary School, Fashion School, Business School, Engineering School, and Law School, with additional titles underway.
* * * CARL WARNER* * * World-renowned photographer and alternate landscape artist, best known for his food landscapes, which are gracing calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and other merchandise. His first two books are published by Abrams Image
***CHUCK SAMBUCHINO*** Editor of Guide to Literary Agents and other publications at Writer’s Digest, and author the best-selling How To Survive A Garden Gnome Attack(50,000+ sold, and optioned to Robert Zemeckis and Sony Pictures Animation), and Red Dog, Blue Dog (When Pooches Get Political)
***TERRY BORDER*** Creator of the Bent Object Blog, and author of two Bent Objects Books. Terry also has two greeting cards lines (American Greetings and Pictura), and other merchandise, including jigsaw puzzles.
* * * XAVIERA HOLLANDER * * * the “Happy Hooker” first rose to fame in 1972 with the release of her iconic book, THE HAPPY HOOKER, which sold 18 million copies. Hollander went on to write more than a dozen subsequent works, and wrote the "Call Me Madam" column in Penthouse Magazine. Her most recent book is The Happy Hooker’s Guide to Sex: 69 Orgasmic Ways to Pleasure a Woman.
***ROCCO WACHMAN*** Host of CMT’s Cowboy U, and author with Matt Pellegrini, of COWBOY: The Ultimate Guide.

RECENT OR NOTEWORTHY SALES
Jessica Handler's Braving the Fire to St Martin’s Press; Angie Bailey’s Whiskerlist to Running Press; Raoul Wientzen’s The Assembler of Parts to Arcade; Neil Landau’s The Showrunner’s Roadmap to Focal Press; Sharron Kahn Luttrell’s Weekends With Daisy to Gallery (Simon & Schuster), Film rights CBS Films; Steve Babitsky and James Mangrivit Jr.’s The Street Smart MBA to Apress/Springer; Rex Burns’ Body Slam and Crude Carrier to Mysterious Press and Open Road; Jeffrey Fleishman’s Shadow Man to Steerforth; Craig Tracy’s Painted Alive to Schiffer Books; Chuck Sambuchino’s Red Dog, Blue Dog to Running Press; Shawn Bowman’s Beer Crafts to Andrews McMeel; Chuck Sambuchino’s Create Your Writer Platform to F&W / Writer’s Digest; Matt Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned in Law School to Grand Central Publishing; Phoebe Baker-Hyde's The Beauty Experiment to Da Capo; Carl Warner’s World of Food to Abrams Image; Matt Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School to Grand Central Publishing; Aaron Santos’s Ballparking to Running Press; Jeanne Williamson's Uncommon Cards to Running Press; Lisa Currie's Scribble Diary to Perigee; Neil Landau's The Screenwriter's Roadmap to Focal Press; Terry Border's Bent Object of My Affection to Running Press; Man Martin's Paradise Dogs to Thomas Dunne Books; Shawn Bowman's Criminal Crafts to Andrews McMeel; Julia M. Usher's Ultimate Cookies to Gibbs-Smith; Chuck Sambuchino's How To Survive A Garden Gnome Attack to Ten Speed Press (Crown), film optioned to Robert Zemeckis and Sony Pictures Animation; Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes to Abrams Image; Rose-Lynne Fisher's BEE to Princeton Architectural Press; Anne Dziemianowicz’s Careers For Your Cat to Ten Speed Press (Crown); Miroslav Penkov's debut collection BULGARI, a country in stories, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Rocco Wachman and Matthew Pellegrini’s How To Be A Cowboy to Harper Collins; Cathryn Griffith’s Havana RevisitedEye of the Mountain God to Thomas Dunne; Terry Border's Bent Objects: The Secret Life Of Everyday Things to Running Press; Jessica Handler’s Invisible Sisters to Public Affairs; Darci Klein’s To Full Term, to Berkley/Penguin; Jeanne Williamson’s The Uncommon Quilter to Potter Craft (Clarkson Potter/Crown); Kathleen Quigley’s The Summer Cottage to Rizzoli; Richard Galli's Of Rice And Men to Random House; Robin Moore’s Hunting Down Saddam to St. Martin's Press; Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned ® series to Grand Central Publishing in a major deal.

You can see announced deals HERE and clicking Overall
Please note that not all deals are reported, and the Fairbank Literary site is in the process of being updated over the next few weeks with many additional deals to be posted. This list is woefully out of date right now.

Foreign/Translation Rights
Betty Anne Crawford
Books Crossing Borders

FILM / TV
Eric Robinson
The Gotham Group

To query Fairbank Literary by email, send to queries@fairbankliterary.com

Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank - Principal of Fairbank Literary
sorche@fairbankliterary.com

Matt Frederick - Scout for NONFICTION books on sports and architecture only
matt@fairbankliterary.com

Amanda Ward - Fairbank Literary intern for Spring 2013
intern@fairbankliterary.com

*** PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS ABOVE***
NO PHONE QUERIES PLEASE!
Query by mail or email (queries@fairbankliterary.com) No genre romance, sci-fi, sports fiction, YA, screenplays, or children's works.
If your work is much over 120,000 words, chances are it's too long for us.

Submissions should consist of a one page query that includes a synopsis of the work, and ideally, a short sample chapter (up to the first ten pages)by mail or in the body of an email. Remember to include the appropriate SASE for any returned materials. Allow at least four to six weeks for a query response, although we will respond as quickly as possible.

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